life of an NYC Taxi in 5mins.

A cool app that provides a visual map of a taxi's route and revenue in 5 mins....

A new study into urban commute and taxi movement yields an app that provides a visual map of a random taxi.  Urban jungle or urban labyrinth? To an NYC taxi, the city is both.
The civic technology project analyzes how taxis move around the city and provides a drill-down view.

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You can watch a taxi do its maze-tracing, money-making thing for a full 24 hours, totally uncenssored.

Try it out…it shows the power of GIS and how we can use information to help in planning megacitiea.
Site: http://nyctaxi.herokuapp.com

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